Competence Centre

Competence Centre for Energy, Environment and Sustainable Economy

We focus on Bioenergy, Energy Efficiency, E-Mobility, Solar Energy, Water Supply, Waste Water Treatment, Supply Chain Due Diligence and Waste Management. The Competence Centre for Energy, Environment and Sustainable Economy also provides a joint function for East African enterprises and institutions to connect to Germany to assess knowledge and technology in the respective sectors.

Special emphasis is put on

• Market Intelligence including research and publication of detailed studies, subsector analysis for corporates as well as the public sector and international organizations;
• The provision of Business Delegation Trips and individual Fact-Finding Missions both to and from Germany;
• Overview of relevant stakeholders in the private, public, and institutional sphere including the identification and the assessment of potential clients and business partners;
• Constant liaising with relevant public and private institutions in the aforementioned sectors for keeping track of relevant developments and initiatives;
• Measures to sensitize the target markets and the provision of platforms including match-making, workshops, trainings and publications;
• Support in acquiring linkages to tools aimed at leveraging private sector engagement provided by development cooperation.
• Our team at AHK is now certified as 'Supply Chain Due Diligence Managers' and able to give ToTs to implementors of Supply Chain Due Diligence in private companies and to other interested parties e.g. at associations, cooperations, and other entities.

Our Services

We offer services in the following topics, among others, throughout the East African region:

• Consulting on market entry and business development strategy (taking into account German export promotion programs and possibly programs in the realm of German economic development cooperation);
• Analysing target markets and respective sub-sectors;
• Identifying potential business partners and clients; Organizing individual fact-finding missions;
• Providing platforms for German companies to promote their expertise and specific solutions, i.e. in experts’ dialogues, roundtables, seminars, conferences, B2B settings;
• Facilitating business trips of German companies to Kenya and the East Africa region but also business trips of East African enterprises to Germany;
• Supporting the acquisition of adequate public and private project funding opportunities
• Offering certification on Supply Chain due Diligence in collaboration The Indo-German Chamber of Commerce (IGCC). For more information, please click here: https://bit.ly/3z7H1Of

Business Scouts for Development

Business Scouts for Development work as development policy experts in around 40 countries across the globe. On behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Development and Cooperation (BMZ), they advise German, European and local companies on development policy matters and promote responsible business engagement through cooperation projects. The Business Scouts for Development work closely with partners from business associations and institutions and from TVET organisations both in Germany and in each country.